The Guys Cliffe House Online Historical Image Archive

These historically significant images are here for all to view and enjoy as they rightfully should be, completely free for everyone with no subscriptions or registrations required... Please do not offer donations as they will be gratefully declined...

Please feel free to browse to your hearts content... However... All images are digitally watermarked and traceable and the individual image copyrights remain... This is stated at this point as it may not be stated on the individual images...

This archive will, in time, include some previously unseen material sourced from various collections although many of the images here are to be found within the public domain... It will also include some original historical documents, depictions, photographs and postcards of Guys Cliffe House, owned by the creator of this archive...

Dave Taylor, the site owner and creator of this photo gallery archive has for several years been very much involved with the preservation of this historical property and has always harboured a strong interest and care for Guys Cliffe House... It is with great pleasure that this archive is presented for all to enjoy...

No matter what the decay, Guys Cliffe House will forever survive in the hearts and minds of her admirers...

Guys Cliffe House

Guys Cliffe House - A brief history...

Guy's Cliffe has a long and varied history...

From its humble beginnings as a secluded place of worship in the 5th century... The legends of Sir Guy of Warwick which secured its place in folklore... The establishment of a chapel in the 15th century by will of King Henry V... The Tudor period ownership as a timber framed house...

Leading into its ownership and creation of the familiar Palladian Georgian style house by Samuel Greatheed, Member of Parliament for Coventry and also a St. Kitts and Nevis sugar plantation owner ... Its ownership by the Heber-Percy family, its use as a Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital in the First World War and during the Second World War as a Boys Home by the Waifs and Strays Society...

The steady and sad decline into the romantic partial ruin... Right up to the present day under its ownership by the Freemasons & ongoing preservation by the Friends of Guy's Cliffe... This old & historically significant property has yet many things to offer...